Vampire Twins Meet The Pack (Book One)

Chapter Twenty Eight

The group of us hurried out of the library. Steve split off to go pick up Patricia and carry her up to my room while we headed there immediately. Jaydon would be fine. At least that was what I kept telling myself. The truth was that this "cure" freaked me the heck out. It could go so wrong! But I had to keep telling myself that it wouldn't.

Lanie stepped up beside me and offered me a tiny smile. She, apparently, could sense the worry rolling off me. She slipped her little hand into mine and didn't seem to mind when I squeezed hers tightly; so tightly in fact that my knuckles started to turn white. This was so wrong. I honestly could not believe that we were actually going through with this.

Bishop stepped into my bathroom at his sister's request and carried Jenni out into my room, laying her on my windowseat. I sat down on the foot of my bed and pulled my legs up to my chest, wrapping my arms around them. "Are we waiting for Steve and Patricia?" I asked as I rested my forehead on my knees.

"Yes," Alison said quietly. I felt someone sit down beside me.

"You don't like this idea, do you?" The voice was Ariana's, and I started.

Not even bothering to lift my head from my knees, I mumbled. "No, I don't. It's...unnatural. No offense, of course. But what if it has the same effect as a werewolf biting you?"

"I completely understand," she told me softly, causing me to lift my head. Her eyes were full of kindness, which surprised me. I knew it shouldn't surprise me by now, but it still did. "But Alison is convinced it will work, and honestly, what other choice do we have?"

I nodded slowly. "Yeah, this is our only choice." Just then Steve walked in with Patricia. Her coughing woke Jaydon up again.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"We found a cure," Alison said. "And since you're the sickest, you get to go first." His eyes widened. He hated medicine, always had. But this was no medicine. This was far worse. He would hate this a lot more.

"What is it?" he questioned quickly, taking in the looks on all of our faces. "Just tell me already. The longer you don't tell me, the worse you make it."

"The cure, well, Jaydon, the cure is the bite of a vampire," Alison said slowly. His green eyes widened to take up a lot more space in his pale face.

~Jaydon~

"WHAT?" I yelled. This was absolutely insane. If a werewolf's bite drove a vampire crazy, who was to say that a vampire's bite wouldn't do the same to a werewolf?

"Look, it's been done before," Nata said. "The werewolves survived."

"There's something in the venom of the born vampires that kills off this disease. Some lycanthropes get it when they are exposed too long to turned vampires. I know that there's one at your school. They were probably sick, and so that illness mutated and infected you guys."

"Well that sucks," I commented sourly. I felt like crap, but I really did not want to get bit by a freaking vampire! I also didn't want to die, though.... "Will it hurt?" It was a childish question, I know, but hello, I was about to get bit by a vampire. They have sharp pointy fangs, you know. They don't look so pleasant. I'm not a big fan of needles, or sharp pointy things in general.

"Will you please just do it, Jaydon?" Patricia's weak voice floated to my ears. I glanced over at her, where Steve still held her in his arms. "I can't lose anyone in this pack. You all mean so much to me. And even the ones who aren't sick need to be bitten, so they don't catch it from the germs that are going to be no doubt lingering around here. It's not like we'll be different from each other."

"All right," I groaned. "This is going to suck."

~Serafina~

I tried to chew my lip discreetly as Alison instructed Ariana on what to do. It made sense that she would bite him, I mean, it would be little weird to have another guy bite you, wouldn't it? Alison told her precisely where to bite him on his neck, and then Ariana took a few steps over to sit on the edge of the bed. She had just started to lean towards him to bite him when he jerked away.

"I can't go first," he said, sounding ashamed of himself. "I'm sorry, but this is just way too weird. I have to see someone else do it first. Please." Jaydon never said please. This was pretty serious. And then I remembered that he was scared of pointy things going into him. Jenni shook her head, heck no she was not going first, and Steve looked reluctant to offer up his Luna to this treatment that might not even work.

"I'll go." The voice shocked me. It was mine. I didn't know why I just said that. All I knew was that I couldn't let my pack die all because Jaydon was a chicken. I was just as afraid of getting bit as he was, but I was physically stronger at that moment.

Every pair of eyes in the room turned to me. "Are you sure?" Steve asked.

"Yes, i'm sure. Now would someone just do it already? Before I chicken out, preferably?" Alison nodded and turned to Ariana. She nodded back and turned to me, both of us standing up. "This is so weird," I muttered. I swear it would have been less weird to kiss her. At least I think.

I tipped my chin up towards the ceiling, closing my eyes tightly....